Description
It is usually the large structures that attract attention. We have to look twice to see those small buildings that so often lend a street or square its particular charm. Newspaper kiosks, telephone cells, bus shelters, a florist’s stall – they are all part of everyday city life and infrastructure, and necessary ingredients of any urban composition. They occupy the gaps and embellish empty spaces.
In this publication Topos – European Landscape Magazine gathers together many successful examples of these fanciful and eccentric architectural footnotes from Iceland to Croatia, focussing on how location and context determine their design.
CONTENTS
- Crazy footnotes in architecture
- Small structures in public open space
- Image and space
- Southern tangent in the Netherlands
- Pavilions in the botanical garden of Trauttmansdorff Castle in Merano
- Green follies in Parco di Casvegno, Mendrisio
- Bird observation hides at Kis-Balaton Nature Park
- The architect as a basket weaver
- Parasitic architecture
- Having to go, being able to go – and going
- An Icelandic park for bathing
- Small structures in the big Finnish outdoors
- Souru Sound Tower, Finland
- Rest stops at Oslofjord
- Trees, huts, shelters
- Forgotten temples
104 pages, color & b&w ills / 24 x 29,5 cm / English
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